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New American Standard Bible - NASB

Readable, Trusted, Literal, & Timeless

NASB Translation Principles

The New American Standard Bible translation team adhered to the literal philosophy
of translation. This is the most exacting and demanding method of translation,
and requires a word-for-word translation that is accurate and precise, yet easily
readable. This philosophy of translation follows the word and sentence patterns
of the original authors so that the reader is free to understand God's message
as the Holy Spirit leads.

The Fourfold Aim That Guides All of Our Translation Work

1.These publications
shall be true to the original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek.
2. They shall be grammatically correct.
3. They shall be understandable.
4. They shall give the Lord Jesus Christ His proper place, the place which the
Word gives Him; therefore, no work will ever be personalized.

Introduction to the New American Standard Bible

The King
James Version, a landmark in the history of English Bible translation, is a
revision of the Bishops' Bible of 1568. The KJV became the basis for the English
Revised Version appearing in 1881 (New Testament) and 1885 (Old Testament).
The American counterpart of this last work was published in 1901 as the American
Standard Version. The ASV, a product of both British and American scholarship,
has been highly regarded for its scholarship, and accuracy.

Recognizing
the values of the American Standard Version, The Lockman Foundation felt an
urgency to preserve these and other lasting values of the ASV, by incorporating
recent discoveries of Hebrew and Greek textual sources and by rendering it into
more current English. Therefore, in 1959 a new translation project was launched,
based on the time-honored principles of translation of the ASV and KJV. The
result is the New American Standard Bible.

Under the sponsorship of The Lockman
Foundation of La Habra, California, a dedicated team of scholars worked for
more than ten years to produce the New American Standard Bible. First
published in its compete form in 1971, the NASB is excellent
for Bible study because it aims at a precise translation of the original Hebrew,
Aramaic, and Greek. As such, it renders, where practical, the original order
of words and phrases. In passages where this literalness produces unacceptable
English, the translators used modern English idioms and indicated the literal
renderings in marginal notes.

In New Testament Greek, questions are worded in a way that shows whether the
expected answer is yes or no. The NASB translation is faithful to this
treatment. In places where the English language would describe past action with
a past-tense verb, the Greek uses the present tense for special vividness. The
NASB indicates such cases with an asterisk (or star) before the past-tense
verb. Among the other distinctive are the NASB's clear indicating
of all phrases that quote or allude to the Old Testament; it includes quotation
marks for dialogue and quoted material and capitalizes personal pronouns and
words referring to Deity; and supplied words are in italic type.

Underlying theNew American Standard Bibleis the evangelical
commitment of the translators: all of whom believe that the words of the original
manuscripts of Scripture were given by God.

HEBREW TEXT: The latest edition of
Rudolf Kittel's BIBLIA HEBRAICA has been employed together with the most recent
light from lexicography, cognate languages, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

GREEK TEXT: Consideration was given
to the latest available manuscripts with a view to determining the best Greek
text. In most instances the 26th edition of Eberhard Nestle's NOVUM TESTAMENTUM
GRAECE was followed.

Translators of the NASB

The translators
were carefully chosen from the mainstream evangelical denominational groups
and respected Christian institutions of higher learning. Some served on the
translation committee itself. This was a committee located, for the most part,
in the Southern California area. Others served as consultants who reviewed the
translation committee's work and made recommendations for improvements. These
consultants were chosen from all sections of the United States.

The translators come from Presbyterian, Methodist,
American Baptist, Disciples, Southern Baptist, Nazarene, General Association
of Regular Baptist, Congregational, Independent Baptist, Free Methodist, and
still other denominations. Some have international reputations. All support
the philosophy of literal translation and the doctrinal statement of The Lockman
Foundation, including the inerrancy of the Scriptures.

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The Lockman Foundation is a nonprofit, interdenominational ministry
dedicated to the translation, publication, and distribution of
the New American Standard Bible (NASB), Amplified Bible (AMP),
La Biblia de las Américas (LBLA), Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana
de Hoy (NBLH), and other Biblical resources.